San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-02-03
LATEST TELEGRAPH NEWS
From all Parts of the Globe, Con-
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ne beHhIOTih ueau JOCK continues un-
broken In West Virginia.
Pendleton cannot throw any light on
the war situation in Europe.
Work has begun on the new 1000
custom couse at New Laredo.
Waco is waring on the gamblers and
the fancy are leaving the city.
The print mills at Yonkers. N. Y, are
shut down, owing to lack Of coal.
Germany forbids the expectation of
planks to France by way Of Dieuze.
The boycott is ordered upon all Chi
cago firms handling ArmOur's goods.
Snow has been falling for sixty hours
In Montana, and everything Ia buried.
The Southern Telegraph company
sells out to Pace and Wise OF Virginia.
+. j. Sander. Corpus Christi grocer as
signs. Liabilities 5000; assets $1,000.
Protests against the Moore insurance
bill are pouring into the state legisls-
ture.
Fanny Davenport's jewels valued at
S35, 600 stolen by hotel clerk at Mem
phis.
The railroad freight han dlers join the
loDgshoremen, and the trouble grows
lively.
House bill. extending time for redemp-
ton Of lands sold for tax to II months
passed.
Vienna and Pesth are the only oapi-
tails In Europe that think war can be
averted.
Reagan and Maxey, having accom-
plishep their warfare, have departed for
Washington.
England grants subsidy to the White
star line which is to carry troops in the
event Of war.
The Progressive assembly, In Spain.
endorse Gorilla SO to %. The minority
left the assembly.
Senate authorizes railways to aban
don terminal towns that have been de-
strOyed by storms.
The Alabama coal miners in Walker
county, will walk out II 10 per cent.
advance Is not given.
Three men killed at Hyde Park. by
stepping in front of moving train
while avoiding another.
Count Kalnoky, in the Vienna council
OF ministers, asserts that relations with
Russia are much improved.
A severe sleet storm, accompanied BY
lightni' <, struck Upper Alton on Tues
day, and one man was killed.
Miss Van Zandt was married to Spies
by proxy, his brother standing sponsor,
as proxy, before the magistrate.
Davitt had an enthusiastic reception
at Queenstown, Ireland, and was ten
dered an address by the City of Cork.
Jacksonville, Florida, wants the ap.
preparation for the removal OF the bar in
the St. Johns river, increased at least
$4,000.
An incendiary attempt made upon
Moore's Station, Texas, but the flames
were discovered in time to prevent
much damage.
Thermometer 30 below zero in the
Northwest and billiards. raging In
Dakota, and the northwestern provinces
are showed under.
New York labor leaders will attempt
to stop all payments of rents by labor
organization members and pay same to
families Of strikers.
second unsuccessful attempt made
to assassinate Judge Fitzgerald, OF the
Cincinnati police court. The Judge Is a
terror to evil-doers.
The number of lives lost by the COLI.
sion OF the Kapunda and Ada Melmore.
reported at "a In yesterdays dispatches,
should have been 304.
Some tender feet made an Intellectual
attempt to rob pullman sleeper on the
Fort Wayne road The train men gave
them the grand bounce.
The general sentiment throughout
central and eastern Texas is one of sat-
isfaction over the election OF Reagan.
Western Texas is generally silent.
The steamer GuyandOtt. Of the Old
Dominion line, was damaged $500 BY
the explosion OF dynamite bomb, and
now $4,000 is offered for the arrest of
the bomber.
The $4,000 appropriation for seed for
Texas sufferers, passes the United States
senate, after which that body spent the
rest of the session in discussing the sun
dry civil appropriation.
Murder and arson is reported two
miles north Of Kerrville. The house of
Mrs. Elsie johnson was burned and her
son Neal was killed. Suspicion rests on
a neIghbor named Payne.
President Grevy and Premier Goblet
are making every effort to prevent war.
The German press persists in
Its declarations that France is preparing
to overrun Alsace and Lorraine.
Miss Clara Barton, of the Red Cross.
returned from an investigation OF the
drouth cursed counties, says that in
Stephens county alone 1900 people are
suffering for the actual necessaries Of
life.
Officers Smith and johnson, near Lit
tie Rock Ark were shot nv q man
named Sneed, under indictment for muir
der, and his brother. One of the Sneeds
was shot In the neck. The murderers
escaped.
The Italians in the SOudan are making
no Roadway against the hostile Arabs.
Themselves and their Abysinian allies
were fairly cut to pieces at Saate, and
only ninety reached Massowah after the
battle, and these mostly wounded.
The British find strong opposition
from the native tribes in pushing their
railway from Quetta towards Candahar.
The Durani tribe are very active, and
the Amer Of all Afghanistan has had to
undertake the protection of the construc-
tion forces.
An attempt Of seven masked men to
rob the Jersey City postoffice fails They
bound and gagged the night Waterman,
janitor and family and worked from IL
to 4 q. m, to crack the safe but could
not. They carried off lot Of mail mat
ter.
The new Canadian premier makes q
startling revelation OF the plumber Of the
public treasury during McDona!d's sd
mtnistration. A parliamentary enquiry
alone can unearth the extant NJ the